ecology

Coming of age in 1970’s Chile, ecologist Ricardo Rozzi reflects on the social and environmental issues caused by the political climate, plus recounts how a near death experience impacted the course of his research.

Kirsten Grorud-Colvert is a marine ecologist at Oregon State University, where she has studied ocean organisms in the Oregon nearshore, the Florida Keys, and California’s Catalina Island, along with other marine systems from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean.

Elisa Schaum is an oceanographer turned evolutionary biologist that investigates what makes some phytoplankton populations better at evolving under climate change than others. (Read more here)

***Note from Elisa:

Confessions of a non-native speaker: it was only after the story telling session that I realised that to most native English speakers, ‘gipsy’ is a slur that should not be used without permission by the person that is being talked about. As this story is in its essence a love letter to my crazy artist family, the word was not meant to be read as a slur but is just the word that is, in translation, closest to the way that my family describes themselves.